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BEGINNER MIND DANA RETREAT

Instructors:
Eido Frances Carney

This weekend retreat is an offering from Upaya Zen Center to the greater community. The program will be lead by Eido Carney Roshi and Upaya's Head Priest, Shinzan Palma. The retreat will cover meditation instruction (zazen), Upaya's Zen temple forms, a brief history of Zen Buddhism and an introduction to some specific practices that characterize Zen training: oryoki (a mindful eating practice), samu (work practice),and the daily liturgy and chanting. Eido Carney Roshi and Shinzan will guide and instruct participants. The weekend will also include several sessions of zazen and will allow time for questions and a closing circle.This is an ideal retreat choice for beginners and the financially challenged.

Sample Schedule

More about the instructors:

Eido Frances Carney received Dharma Transmission from Niho Tetsumei Roshi in 1997 at Entsuji Temple in Kurashiki, Japan. She founded Olympia Zen Center in 1995 when she returned to Olympia after priest training at Shoboji in Iwate Prefecture. She was the first woman and first foreigner to train at this temple founded in the 13th Century. She had been a long-time student of Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi beginning practice in the early 70's. Kobun Roshi died in 2002.

She was Adjunct Faculty in Humanities at South Puget Sound Community College for ten years from 1996 until 2006. She is former President of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association, a national organization of Soto Zen Buddhist priests.

As she is in lineage with the hermit priest-poet Ryokan, she endeavors to teach about Ryokan, his poetry and life, entering art and poetry for transformation and insight.

In 2008, Niho Roshi named Eido Roshi, Abbess of Fukujuji, a new temple which Niho Roshi had built in Nakasho, Japan, which is near Kurashiki and Okayama.